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August 23

August 23, 2016

QUOTE OF THE DAY

If I’m thinking for more than 20 minutes about one move, it’s usually a waste. Sometimes you can come up with some amazing solution but most of the time you just end up looping: you consider a move, you reject it, then you’re desperate, you come back to the move, you don’t remember why you rejected it, you have to make a move so you make it – then your opponent replies and you remember why you rejected it. The longest wait I ever did between moves was one hour and five minutes – and the move was horrible.- Magnus Carlsen, 2016

BIRTHS

Karl Jaenisch (1813), Finnish-Russian chess player, chess theorist, composer and author. Jaenisch is best remembered for having analyzed and helped develop Petrov’s Defence and the Schliemann–Jaenisch Gambit of the Ruy Lopez,
Tigran Gorgiev (1910), Soviet study composer, born in Ukraine, International Judge of Chess Compositions 1956, International Master for Chess Compositions 1956.
Rodrigo Flores Alvarez (1910-17.01.2007), Argentine Master who won between 1931 and 1965 11 times the Argentine championship.
Dmitry Kononenko, (1988), Ukraine Grandmaster.
Gennadi Matjushin (1984), Ukraine Grandmaster.
Martin Petr (1988), Czech Grandmaster.

DEATHS

Lev Polugaevsky (1995), Soviet-French Grandmaster, theorist, the participant at the Candidates’ Matches. He died of a brain tumour in 1995.

CHESS EVENTS

1895 The Swiss system was invented by Dr. Julius Muller and applied for the first time in 1895 at Zurich.
1953 The FIDE GA agreed to charge for the first time entry fees to the federation.
1985 The USSR won the World U26 Team Championship in Mendosa, Argentina.

WORLD EVENTS

1754 Louis XVI of France was born (d. 1793)
1839 The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.
1866 Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
1927 Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
1939 World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
1942 World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
1990 Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1990 West Germany and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3.
2011 Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the Libyan Civil War.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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